One way to avoid the dangerous rays of the sun is to stay indoors, another is to apply a healthy layer of sun cream and slap on a wide-brimmed hat.

If you’re in China, however, there is a third option - a 'Face-Kini' complete with a body suit.

The name describes a protective head mask that is being used in Shandong province's East China Sea coast by beach-goers who want to protect their skin from the sun.

maybe if all children wore masks throughout childhood there'd be no bullying and we could raise a perfect little robot generation

It's the f*cking beach you guys. I guess we'll take a backseat to your manufacturing and population, but we make better music, movies, and girls. Yeah, we have stupid shit too like the kids all wearing their baseball caps with the stickers on them and the bill bent the wrong way, but you'll copy that fad for the next 20 years, nobody's going to join you on this one.

I love you China, I'm just playing. Looking forward to some outraged responses though.

Chinese support child slavery, are trying to wipe out all the cool native cultures like the Tibetans, captured the next Dalai Llama and made him disappear and replaced him with a Chinese one, build skyscrapers that break down while full of people and kill hundreds, steal little kids away from their mothers and torture them with gymnastics training and on top of that, yeh they do weird shit like facekinis and starve themselves to death playing world of warcraft.

Moms send their daughters to universities in Europe and America with implicit instructions to go find a rich business man and marry him.

Seriously, they are like the real life version of the Galactic Empire. When China takes over and begins spreading their culture around the world, the world is going to suck.

Being pale carries connotations of higher status in China mates, from back in the days when farmers catch tans outside and nobility types worked inside. Wouldnt surprise me if this had more to do with that than Uv rays or some such notion.

The light vs dark status thing over there is pretty notable. Not unlike the West.

So do I mate but these days youve got to be very careful about bullying fa ggots. It aint like the good ol days.

This made me lol.

Back on Topic, Serge, you sound like a moron, 1.5B people, not all of them are alike.

Being dark skinned is considered UGLY in Chinese culture, plain and simple. It also makes people think you are a peasant instead of a city (read wealthy or cultured) person.

Also the Chinese are experts at not giving the slightest fukk what anyone outside their immediate family or circle of connections think. They will do dumb shit in public and nary a fukk is given.

Those masks are retarded looking, and I hope people who wear them get some kind of skin rash from it absorbing polluted waters and rubbing on their faces. But it is something anyone could see coming, like the next logical step from the old Korean ladies on the golf course who are covered head to toe.